Drudge is the king of ‘Hey Martha!’ stories

A “Hey, Martha!” story, explains Carl Lavin, is one that makes a person reading the newspaper at the breakfast table yell out, “Hey, Martha, look at this.”

“One of the greatest connoisseurs of the Hey, Martha genre is Matt Drudge,” he writes. Drudge today linked to a story based on a Salem Patch article — one that AOL and Huffington Post didn’t bother to use. That has Lavin asking: